solving mysteries by myself

According to dictionary.com mystery is defined as anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown. Currently the best authors of mystery are James Patterson, Lee Child, John Grisham and Tom Clancy. They all are highly recognized mystery authors and have been successfully writing series and bestselling mystery novels for today’s readers. Mystery books have been famous for years, amazing mysteries that where written in the early 1900’s are still popular today like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Where None. Today’s authors are putting out amazing new mysteries novels like Dan Browns Da Vinci Code. I have read both of these books and have enjoyed them equally. They are both well written books that showed me that people wrote good books in the past and that the key concepts have stayed the same. Key parts of mystery books are having a good plot. The plot is everything. In a mystery the plot is important because it’s what gets the reader hooked. It has to be plausible and it has to keep going. It can’t get boring because they will put it down. Another important thing is that the author must introduce the mystery at most three chapters in or the reader will feel like it has started to slow and will give up on the book. The author must do research prior to writing the book so they can add real evidence or facts to make it seem more reasonable. Authors that put these things together to create a good mystery can be rewarded with awards for their novels. One of the most prestigious of these awards is the Edgar awards, which is named after Edger Allan Poe. My book is The Sherlockian, it’s an interesting story about the original author of the Sherlock Holmes series and a group of fans in the present. It is well written and it has a good plot and follows the rules that I stated above. The mystery was introduced early in the book so I was hooked in immediately, and wanted to keep reading and try to guess the answer to the mystery Work cited= http://awards.omnimystery.com/mystery-awards.html

There is snow outside and I hate it

The book I chose for our mystery unit was the Sherlockian by Graham Moore. I have read the first twenty or so page and it pretty good. The mystery hasn’t really developed but I can see it coming. Every other chapter it changes to a new character. One chapter is from the point of view from the original author who wrote the books in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. And the other section follows a character that is in a Sherlock Holmes fan club in 2010. In that chapter it is told in third person. so far all we know is that the original author is at the point it time where he kills Sherlock in the book because he thinks that the character gets more attention than he does as the author and creator of him, and truly him being the character or the character being a part of him. It’s kind of weird and the reader is trying to take in what details there are so that they aren’t confused but we haven’t been told to much so it’s difficult. The reason I picked Sherlock Holmes has my mystery book is because recently I have been watching a lot of Sherlock on Netflix and I love it, so therefor I thought why not read the book. I feel like I will either love the books or since I have a vision of what I feel like it should be I might hate it with a passion and not finish it and have to spark note it or get a different book. I hope I like it though because I really need to find a book series that I like, so I don’t have to pretend to read books for other classes and stuff.

snow day stuff

This year I feel like that I have begun to read more mature topics. I’m not reading the dumb clique books I would have in 6th grade. Back then I read quick and easy books that only took me a couple days and the plot to all the books where the same and so every book in the series had the same premise except just different details. The characters would be all happy and nice and be getting back to normal life after their last adventure in the previous book and then something bad would happen like someone would go missing or something stupid like that and then they had their “exciting” adventure with highs and lows and in the end they solved it and they were all happy and they went home. The books I read now require a higher level of thinking and I am not able to guess the endings like I once was able to. The type of books I like to read hasn’t really changed. I never really hated any type of books and now as I am opened to new genres and series I try to read it all. Currently I have been reading a lot of realistic fiction. The last book that I read was kind of historical fiction and it was super good. It had a super good plot that I didn’t predict and the characters were all well developed. All of this came together to create a very well written novel that I would recommend to others. This trimester I think that I have really not read as much as I did in the first. I go in and out of reading though, sometimes I will finish multiple books in a week and other times I won’t touch a book for two months. It just depends on my mood or if I’m busy and I think it’s good to read like that. You shouldn’t be forced to read. It should be done on your own terms.